Image of a male wooden doll carved by renowned Pleasant Hill woodcarver and dollmaker Polly Page. This would be an "Uncle Pink" signature doll. Page carved the characters of "Aunt Jenny and Uncle Pink" to represent local pioneer figures.

It is Sunday and brother Ben was captured the first day of fighting at Gettysburg. Nannie thinks that those prisoners who are able to write to their family should at least mention other captured prisoners as well. Ed Bringhurst did so. Ben Hering...

Nannie E. Haskins diary entry about the 131st anniversary of George Washington's birth. She believes Washington would have supported the South. She praises Confederate President Jefferson Davis and ends the entry with a disparaging joke about U. S....

Nannie E. Haskins diary entry about the 131st anniversary of George Washington's birth. She believes Washington would have supported the South. She praises Confederate President Jefferson Davis and ends the entry with a disparaging joke about U. S....

Nannie E. Haskins diary entry in which she says that she cannot study because of the sound of constant canon fire. She surmises that the Confederates are trying to recapture Fort Donelson. She also says that she is disgusted with the color blue and...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. Craighead mentions a trip to Louisville with family, where she encounters acquaintances heading north, shops, and stays at the Galt House. The Galt House was the location where...

Begins with ball preparations and her disapointment of some officers' behavior. Next writes of very strong storms in the night. Finally she writes that Morgans men that are behaving badly, and he is "losing character by the way they go on stealing...

In this entry Lucy writes of a visit from General Morgan and his wife. Lucy liked Mrs. Morgan although she was not brillant. There was a Ball with meager food and clothes that were reworked.. She writes that events in Vicksburg & Charleston are...

In the entry Darlin comes back from a visit to town and announces that the Yankees are coming again. The Yankees burned the stables; however, Darlin was able to save about half of one poultry house, by ripping off roofing and planking to stop the...

In the entry Darlin comes back from a visit to town and announces that the Yankees are coming again. The Yankees burned the stables; however, Darlin was able to save about half of one poultry house, by ripping off roofing and planking to stop the...

On the first day of the year 1865 LVF is very down in her mood. She believes that the weather is becoming colder than it was when she married & came to McMinnville. Mollie has made a wreath of evergreens to place on Cap Spurlock's grave as it is...